And Then I Turned Into a Mermaid by Laura Kirkpatrick

Author:Laura Kirkpatrick [Kirkpatrick, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781405295178
Publisher: Egmont

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Jack-in-the-Box

By the time a new week rolled around, Molly and Ada still hadn’t made up. Every time Molly caught sight of her in the hallway, she was tagging along behind Felicity Davison, or ogling Penalty Pete as he licked his shin pads (or whatever football fanatics actually did to pass the time).

Somehow, Ada was arriving early to all the classes she shared with Molly, and making sure she nabbed a seat by the popular guys in their own year – the likes of Conan and his cronies were starting to pay more attention to her now she hung out with Penalty Pete, and Ada was loving every second of it. It was as if they thought she held the key to Pete’s football skills.

One afternoon in history, Molly managed to grab a seat next to Ada, but as soon as class started, Ada told Mr Hackney that she’d forgotten her glasses and couldn’t see the board. Someone up front switched with her. Miraculously, by the following day, when Molly sat away from her, Ada’s eyesight was back to eagle levels. The laser-eye-surgery fairy must have paid her a visit in the night.

To make matters even worse, there were rumours that Fit Steve was now going out with Felicity Davison.

Molly knew it was stupid to be upset, since she never really had a chance with him anyway, but she couldn’t help but feel disappointed. She had been crazy to imagine he might have chosen her over someone perfect and popular like Felicity, but it still felt like someone was clamping her heart in a tight fist whenever she thought about it. Maybe it felt so much worse because she didn’t have Ada to mope with.

As usual, Molly’s sadness was spilling out into anger – mainly towards Felicity. How could Fit Steve have such terrible taste? Yes, Felicity was pretty and charming, but she was so mean about Molly’s family. Plus she had already had lip fillers, even though she was only fourteen. Her eager-to-please stepdad knew a dodgy guy who didn’t ask for ID, apparently. She looked like she’d gone mouth-first into a beehive during honey season.

The dating rumours were confirmed one rainy afternoon break, when Molly walked in on Fit Steve and Felicity tongue-kissing behind the stage in the theatre. Molly had only ever been snogged by Minnie (who was trying to steal white chocolate directly from Molly’s cheeks) and so expected to feel jealous, but she strangely didn’t. It looked very wet and unpleasant.

She did wonder how Fit Steve could be having a good time, when surely lip fillers were very firm and uncomfortable. It must be like snogging a kitchen table.

In fairness, he did look glad for the distraction, and smiled awkwardly at Molly as she deposited the props back in the costume trunk. However, before Molly had even left, Felicity was back to clamping her wooden lips around his. It looked like a lamb feeding from a bottle.

As upset as Molly was about the love of

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